Quotes About Indifference

I think the real question's not how are they dead, but why don't they care.

Feeling indifferent or reserved about doing something is a signal that it is probably not correct after all.

To his ear, of course, she suffered some from that malady of her generation- an almost laconic indifference toward speaking concisely- a circling and avoidance of linguistic specificity that bordered on a verbal form of shoulder-shrugging.

THE OPPORTUNITIES missed by the United States on the way to September 2001 extended well beyond the failure to exploit fully an alliance with Massoud. Indifference, lassitude, blindness, paralysis, and commercial greed too often shaped American foreign policy in Afghanistan and South Asia during the 1990s.

Evil is nothing but a word, an objectification where no objectification is necessary. Cast aside this notion of some external agency as the source of inconceivable inhumanity - the sad truth is our possession of an innate proclivity towards indifference, towards deliberate denial of mercy, towards disengaging all that is moral within us. But if that is too dire , let's call it evil. And paint it with fire and venom.

Truth cared nothing for stories. The real world was indifferent to what people wanted to be, to how they wanted everything to turn out. Betrayers came from everywhere, including inside his own body, his own mind. He could trust no one, not even himself.

If holy words could not offer up an answer to despair, then what good were they? If the truths so revealed did not invite restitution, then their utterance was no more than a curse. And if the restitution is found not in the mortal realm, then we are invited to inaction, and indifference. Will you promise to a soul a reward buried in supposition? Are we to reach throughout our lives but never touch? Are we to dream and to hope, but never know?

Soldiers have nothing to look forward to, making patience an easy virtue, and sometimes it`s not just a virtue but a contest of indifference.

I dont care how Ill be remembered after death. For all I know people will put all my work in a skip the next day.

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

I'm not losing any sleep over Dunkin Donuts.

America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

A lot of stuff doesn't faze me. I think it's because I was brought up in a small town, and normally, when you're from a small town, when you see a famous person, you'd be like, 'Oh my god. This never happens,' but I've always kind of been like nonchalant.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.'

Is Snowden a good man or a bad man? I have no clue and even less interest.

So many people ask me, 'Do you like 'Departed?' I say, '50/50.'

I don't understand why people spend so much time thinking about me if they don't like what I do. I couldn't care less about things I don't like.

I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.

Let death take me planting my cabbages, indifferent to him, and still less of my garden not being finished. (tr. Charles Cotton)

If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him?

My trifles escape me with as little gravity as they deserve. Good luck to them for that. I would part with them at once, however low their price. I do not buy and sell them for more than they weigh. I speak to my writing-paper exactly as I do to the first man I meet.

The fucking world is falling apart and it still doesn't rate as an emergency. Do you really think they're gonna panic over us?